DES MOINES, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will host his second Federal Judiciary Youth Summit on Friday, November 12 at 10:15 a.m. CT at the Des Moines Federal Courthouse. Nineteen high schools from eight counties in central Iowa will be participating in the program.
WHO: U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger,...
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer(R-Neb.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are announcing a compromise cattle market proposal, known as the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act. The bill is part of Grassley’s ongoing effort to return fairness to the cattle marketplace dominated by four major meat packers.“I...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 11-09-21Topics include: Vaccine mandates, infrastructure, Michigan pipeline shutdown, paid family leave, digital trade and the workforce.
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Every Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to President Biden requesting that the Administration begin digital trade negotiations with our allies and partners in Asia.“[D]uring your Administration, the United States continues to sit on the sideline,” the Senators wrote. "Our refusal to get into the game to set...
Q&A: Honoring Veterans
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What’s your message for Iowans this Veterans Day?
A: From Valley Forge to Vietnam, the Battle of the Bulge to the Battle of Fallujah, America’s sons and daughters have put their lives on the line for freedom since the Revolutionary War. More than 41 million Americans in U.S. history have...
WASHINGTON – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today pressed Attorney General Garland on reported the multi-million-dollar taxpayer give-away to illegal immigrants in the form of settlement agreements. The Senators’ letter follows conflicting statements from President...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and 41 colleagues in a letter to the heads of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to request immediate action to transition federal workers back to in-person operations.
In the...
WASHINGTON – Republican Ranking Members of all Senate committees that have received reconciliation instructions are calling on Leader Schumer and Senate Committee Chairs to hold legislative hearings, and markups with votes, on Democrats’ reckless taxing and spending legislation. In the letter, the senators highlight the need for the legislative text to be...
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers is seeking a new review of the FBI’s whistleblower protection rules as well as reports of retaliation against whistleblowers from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) after the bureau’s and the Justice Department’s failure to implement new regulations to comply with more stringent...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Steve Daines’ (R-Mont.) amendment to the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022” to block President Biden’s reported plan to spend upwards of a billion dollars to provide $450,000 per person in taxpayer money for settlements for illegal immigrants.
“It’s plain unacceptable to consider...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today joined Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and several colleagues in challenging President Biden’s vaccine mandate. The group of lawmakers formally moved to disapprove and nullify Biden’s vaccine mandate on private employees under the Congressional Review Act, the official process for Congress to eliminate an executive...
WASHINGTON – As labor shortages plague the trucking industry and supply chain issues continue to impact Americans across the country, Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are calling for more Americans to be eligible to obtain a commercial driver’s license (CDL) and operate commercial motor vehicles in interstate commerce.
“We write to you...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today demanded answers from the Indian Health Service (IHS) following the release of an internal report detailing the agency’s failure to do anything about repeated and well-founded allegations that a pediatrician was sexually abusing young patients. The report also indicated that the whistleblowers who reported the...
Senator Grassley's weekly Capitol Hill Report can be found here: Capitol Hill Report, 11-01-21Topics include: Carbon pipelines, COVID-19 vaccines, vaccine mandates, supply chain issues, John Deere strike and the DOJ school board memo.
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) and the committee’s other Republican senators, today wrote to President Joe Biden to oppose his administration’s reported plan to offer illegal immigrants up to $450,000 per person in taxpayer dollars to settle lawsuits resulting from those...
Q&A: Back the Blue
With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
Q: What is the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum?
A: Located in the nation’s capital, this memorial honors law enforcement officers across the country who have lost their lives in the line of duty, working to protect the safety of fellow citizens in their local communities. The...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) former chairman and
senior member of the Senate Finance Committee remains committed to advancing
bipartisan reforms to lower prescription drug costs while saving taxpayer
dollars. Despite months of Democrat’s
intra-party debate on partisan proposals to reform drug pricing, the Biden
administration’s...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the immediate past and current chairmen of the Senate Finance Committee, today released the results of their bipartisan investigation into allegations of ongoing child abuse at federally-funded facilities and substandard protections provided by the Department of Health and Human Services...
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) along with their colleagues, Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), introduced legislation to give top U.S. agriculture and food officials permanent representation on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The...
WASHINGTON – Three pro-police bills backed by Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, passed
the House of Representatives today. The bills were initially passed
out of the Senate Judiciary Committee in May during National Police Week
and cleared the Senate shortly thereafter. “Day in and day out, the men and women...
